Response to Searching for prototypes

A lesson in searching the MARP database...

FYI, it turns out that you can use '%' in a search string to mean 'any number of characters', so searching for

  loud%prototype

finds "Cloud 9 (prototype)" recordings.

You can also put a '^' at the beginning of your search and/or a '$' at the end to ensure that the string you search for matches at the beginning and/or end of the field you are matching. For example, searching for

  ^a%e%i%o%u$

will find the only game whose name begins with an 'a', ends with a 'u' and contains all the vowels in alphabetical order. It is, of course, the famous "Aggressors of Dark Kombat / Tsuukai GANGAN Koushinkyoku". :o)

Chris.

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